ND Awards 2025

February 2026

Ebb and Flow series received an Honorable Mentions in both the Fine Art Landscape and in the Fine Art Conceptual categories of the 2025 ND Awards!

View the series awards page HERE

Fine Art: Conceptual
Fine Art: Landscape

Ebb and Flow, 2025 – ongoing.

The South West Coast Path and the South Dorset Ridgeway are ancient trails that stretch from Dorset in the east to Cornwall in the far southwest of England. For millennia these natural elevated byways have been critically important to local people. With expansive views across the Jurassic landscape to the sea beyond, these highpoints still evoke the ancient communities who used them as vantage points and safe routes through hostile lands and as sacred destinations for religious rites and burials. Long barrows, burial mounds, stone circles and the hillforts of Chalbury and Maiden Castle date from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages, rivalling Stonehenge and Avebury in historical importance. Standing in these ancient locations the past is tangibly close, but even in these protected landscapes human impact can be seen everywhere. Plastic on the beaches, nets on the shore, dead seabirds and fish, farm runoff and sewage outflows, moving from land into rivers and from rivers to the sea.

Man-made environmental pollutants move through different landscapes, a sometimes visible and often invisible cross contamination from one ecosystem to another. With swirling and unnatural looking cloudscapes these images contain intentionally artificial forms, out of place against the backdrop of ancient natural landscapes. Made by throwing, pouring and scattering organic liquids into water, the motion draws out tendrils and creates swirling shapes. These false clouds are suspended and stretched across the sky, appearing caught on the wind or carried by the tide; thunderclouds, mists and storms that don’t belong. A stark reminder of the climate emergency, they foreshadow the ecological concerns of climate change against an ancient natural world teetering on the edge.